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NiTED STATES ATENT OrFIcE.

VILLIAM E. STANIFORD, OF BUCKSPORT, MAINE, ASSIGNOR T() HIMSELF AND J.EDWIN SHERMAN, OIF SAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-SPRINKLER.

Speeication forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,935, dated February27, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. STANI- FORD, of Bucksport, in the countyof Hancock and State of Maine, have invented an ImprovedClothes-Sprinkler; and I do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the tollowing specification and repre-sented in theaccompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l is a top View, Fig. 2 an edgeelevation, and Fig. 3 an under-side View, of it.

It consists ot' a flat plate provided with a handle and a series oftufts ot' Woolen yarn applied to the plate as the bristles of a brushare usually inserted and fixed in their sockets.

In the drawings, A denotes the plate, B the handle, and G the mass ofyarn, consisting of tufts or masses of short threads inserted in holesin the plate, and held there by threads or Wires or other means, andprojecting from the plate in manner as represented.

WILLIAM E. STANIFORD.

Witnesses MARY A. S'rANrFoRD, J. EDWIN SHERMAN.

